Picture This!

Send us your smiles and you can snag hefty piggies if you come out victorious!

“I can feel your smile.” – Tracey Emin

When happy, we smile and when embarrassed, we still smile. We do it to convey different positive emotions and we certainly do hope you took a photo of yourself because you will be needing it for this weeks picture this! If you haven’t put on that pretty smile of yours and take out your favorite camera, you just might have enough time to upload to this rumble (it helps to have an Instax camera in times like these)!

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1 winner – 20 piggies, 3 runners up each receive 5 piggies

Upload ONLYONEPHOTO, please. Size is at least 768px in width or height, as always.

and I agree with mizzfonky about maybe being able to delete out submissions. Although it would be a lot easier for the Lomo crew if we would all just take the time to READ. haha. and maybe on top of that you guys could bold the important parts?!?! just a thought.

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